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vol ix no 29 a m sunday c * Chicago january 17 1909 Chicago examiner sunday price five cents book trust protege now employed by cooley is charge art institute leaders say supt eggers was taken from prang co reparation possible school board to face de . mand for restoration of teachers art credits another link in the chain of circumstances that are inter preted as showing a connec i tion between the school book trust and the office of superintendent of schools coolej was brought to light yesterday i when the discovery was made that i george w eggers superintendent of ' drawing in the Chicago public schools and a protege of mr cooley was em ployed until three years ago by the prang publishing company a branch of the book trust trustees of the art institute are investigating the appointment of mr eggers who was brought here by mr cooley from the pratt institute in brooklyn the stronghold of the prang method of instruction in the united states if their quest proves as successful as they expect they will be prepared to ex plode a mine under mr cooley when the special committee of the school board re sumes its hearing on the charge that the superintendent's removal of the art insti tute from the list of institutions at which school teachers may earn promotional cred its was unwarranted and an abuse of his authority linked with book trust we know and the trustees of the art institute ' know that mr eggers was an employe of the prang institute for years and that by grace of mr cooley he is now at the head of the drawing department in bur public schools said miss margaret i haley i have been informed that the art institute trmstees propose to go to the of the underground connections be tween the schoolbook trust and mr coo , ley's office and that mr eggers the pro tege of mr cooley is expected to be found only one of the links in an amazing system a suppressed letter sent by registrar ralph holmes to superintendent cooley s office is also scheduled to figure prominent ly in the investigation this letter which was addressed to charles p megan as sistant to mr cooley flatly contradicts the statement in the cooley report that none of the 1,313 school teachers failed to win the credits sought in his letter mr holmes tells mr megan that there were failures of school teachers alnd that the percentage who failed was about the same as the percentage failing in the regular art students classes the letter was not included either in the report of mr cooley or bis assistants and a query at the hearing will be why it was suppressed or has its suppression qualified mr megan for membership in the ananias club reparation to be demanded after a meeting of the trustees of the art institute at the coni exchange bank yesterday director william m b french said the trustees and everybody connected with the art institute feel that repara tion should be made by the school board for mr cooler's outrageous attack upon an institution whose good name nobody of any standing has ever befre attempted to besmirch i have no doubt it will be intimated at the hearing that the only adequate reparation is to have the board restore the art institute to the accredited list this idea will probably be put in the form of a suggestion should it be necessary to formulate it as a request or demand then the demand will be made in the name of the whole community everybody being interested in seeing that a public institution like ours shall get fair play normal school laxity charged sensational discoveries showing the ex istence of serious flaws in mr cooley's system for promotion of teachers were an nounced yesterday and will be adduced in support of the demand for reinstatement of the art institute it is claimed that through nrismanage ment carelessnes or worse no record has been kept of the credits earned by teach ers in the promotional courses at the nor mal school and that this lax system of destruction or loss of credit books drove the teachers in a body to the classes at the art institute asked whether trustees would claim at the hearing that the school book trust or its alleged auxiliary the prang company was responsible for the attack upon the art institute mr french said we are digging deep into that channel and if is possible we will be able to show that the hand of our so-calied rival the pratt institute maintained as an adjunct by the prang company figures more than anybody could dream of in this abortive attempt to injure art in Chicago at the eeting a special committee of four to prepare an answer to the specific charges in mr cooley's report was ap pointed the fou are charles 1 hutchln-i son m a ryerson a a sprague and frank g l,ogan iu addition to these the following attended the meeting john c black clarence buckingham , howard shaw n h carpenter and w m it fravch harriman prefers high school boy to college man as railroader tells yale students former can make accurate statement while col legian writes puzzling scrawl new haven conn jttn 16 euwara h harriman the railroad financier has written for the yale daily news his views on college training as preparation for rail roading he said in part a college education will be a great help if the man in going through college has kept the foundations of high school learn ing firmly fixed on the other haud if he has neglected his handwriting and forgotten his arith metic in higher mathematics nothing could be worse for him if however he still retains these essentials he has a great advantage in that he has a broader view of the world the high school boy has the advantage in that all the first essentials of good work in railroading are at his fingers ends for instance take the making of a simple statement it should be like a picture something that can be taken in at a glance a high school boy will draw such a statement with perfect accuracy and clear ness while n young couege graduate will draw it in such a way that it is a puzzling scrawl thus college education is in the begin ning a real disadvantage and i have found that in every case the hig3 school boy does better work than the college man for the first few years however as soon as the college man has overcome these habits and has got back to first principles he will go ahead much faster than his less edu cated rival his mind is naturally better developed and more capable of grasping the fine points of the business on the other hand the high school boy being younger is more adaptable and has not in most cases the irregular habits of the college man no matter how well educated a man may be he must start in railroading at the very bottom a railroad man has no fixed home he is like a naval officer always at sea and moreover he is always working to the limit of his endurance it is the hardest life i know and yet one of the most pleasant it cultivates an insight it teaches a knowledge of men and in this way is the best training for any profes sion national guard chief and staff visit grant officers pay official call to com mander of lakes department major general e c young division commander of the illnois national guard with the officers of his staff paid an of ficial call yesterday at the office of major general fred d grant commander of the department oi the lakes the guards men in full uniform arrived at the fed eral building shortly before 2 o'clock and were received by general grant and his aid-de-camp captain a j bowley the members of general young's staff are colonel l d greene adjutant genera of the division lieutenant colonel t e brown inspector general lieutenant colonel gordon strong ordnance officer lieutenant colonel g p marquis chief surgeon and captains l a mccalla and henry b chamberlin aids-de-camp Taft dines fireman and engineer of fast train overalled employes guests of presi dent-elect in private car atlanta ga jan 16 engineer jo seph hogan and fireman watson of the georgia railroad are wearing broad smiles because they were the special dinner guests of president-elect Taft hogan handled the throttle of the engine which brought Taft from augusta to atlanta at an average speed of four seconds over a mile a minute the run of 171 miles being made in 183 minutes so impressed was Taft by the run that at social circle he asked the engineer and fireman to dine with him in his pri vate car they objected because they were in overalls and grimy but Taft in sisted and they accepted law institute picks its new officials julius johnson is elected president of the organization the aunual meeting and election of offi cers of the Chicago law institute was held yesterday in the rooms of the insti tute 1025 county building at which judge philip stein the outgoing president presided the new officers are president julius johnson first vice president george e dawsou second vice president marcus eaton secretary alfred e barr treas urer frederic e hebard librarian wil liam h holden the directors elected were samuel m jackson walter d her rick robert c fergus lyman m paine joseph w hiner c t b goodspeed charles b obermeyer henry w leniau and carlos t ward do yon need a shipping clerk phono randolph 2500 * senator hopkins arriving home to fieht for toea from snapshot taken as the senat or left the train where lie was met by his son who is shown walking beside him aldermen to force dual phone system cut tunnel company's in stallation extension from 2 years to 8 months ' independents victory corporation attorneys caught off guard by committee ac tion protest vainly steps toward the establishment of a dual telephone exchange in Chicago were taken yesterday at the meeting of the city council committee on gas oil and elec tric light the committee to the consternation of the attorneys for the Illinois tunnel com pany and representatives of the Chicago telephone company decided to force the installation of the 20,000 telephones re quired under the tunnel ordinance and to consider an ordinance giving independent companies connection with Chicago through the tunnel concern the action was so unexpected that it caught former judge nathaniel sears un prepared with a protest and a wordy clash with the chairman of the committee alderman pringle followed extension time reduced the committee had recently decided to allow the tunnel company a two years extension of time in which the 20,000 tele phones were to be installed that would give them until february 1911 to do the work yesterday after calling up the ex tension clause for reconsideration the ex tension was changed to eight months the company therefore must have its 20,000 telephones installed by november 1909 the change in plans was due to the offer of the independent telephone concerns wanting to enter Chicago these concerns represented before the council committee by h d moulton asked that the Illinois company be compelled to allow them to use their Chicago connections the com pany had refused an offer from the inde pendents and was prepared to fight for the right to sell its telephone rights the Chicago telephone company being osten sibly the prospective buyer in fact alderman scully had prepared an amendment to the ordinance permitting the sale hut did not present it when the motion to cut down the time limit from two years to eight months passed general counsel sears for the tunnel com pany observed alderman and lawyer clash such a proceeding is rather strange don't you think that a mistake is being made in permitting a dual system in chi cago yon may remember 1 said this be fore i knew you said it but i didn't be lieve you answered alderman pringle thank you for your compliment re torted mr sears i am sorry if i offended yo re plied mr pringle yon need not apologize i am at your mercy here and i belive you know it was the response well let us get back to business snapped mr pringle and he asked the committeemen what they desired with re gard to allowing the independents to enter Chicago i fear that is a question that will en tail much debate and long consideration said alderman snow and i propose that it be set for a certain day for considera tion the matter was postponed until the next meeting of the committee but the matter of extending the time limit for installa tion of the 20.000 phones will be reported into the council monday night independents plead cause h d critchfield and h d moulton did most of the talking for the independ ent telephone companies before the com mittee mr critchfield impressed on the councilmen the urgency of allowing the independents to enter the city for the bet terment of business and the reduction of telephone rates he urged the insertion of a clause in the ordinance that would give the city the right to force connec tions between the tunnel company and the independents the city in my opinion should be given this power declared walter l fisher it would be for the city's benefit i do not believe the independents themselves are entitled to any rights but it may be that the mere insertion of this clause will make the bell people see the light and give these toll connections without further ac tion on your part tf there are 1 500,000 independent phones near Chicago as is claimed or even any substantial part of them it would be shortsighted policy to remove the possibil ity of business connection with them by leaving opeu the chance for some such ar rangement between the tunnel and the tel ephone companies such as has been sug gested here agnes cameron tells of arctic exploration woman who was guest of hudson bay company gives lecture miss agues cameron who recently re turned from a six months trip to the far north gave au illustrated lecture at the colonial hotel thursday evening to 200 invited guests the subject was from wheat to whales miss cameron was the first white woman to make a trip to the arctic ocean via the macken zie river route she made this journey as the guest of the hudson bay com pany free recitals resumed the free recitals given on wednesday noons by the central conservatory which achieved great popularity before the holi days have beeu resumed and will con tinue through february at least a f l appeals for funds to aid chiefs friends of labor asked to contribute to fight on jail sentences will battle for rights gompers mitchell and morri son exercised constitutional privilege is plea washington jan 16 the executive council of the american federation of labor to-day issued the following appeal for funds with which to carry the appeal of gompers mitchell and morrison from the sentence of imprisonment passed on them to the supreme court of the united states to organized labor its l-'riends and sympathizers greeting the american federation of labor as its name signifies is a voluntary body composed of national international and local unions each of which attends to its own trade business financial and otherwise and retains its complete and individual authority and au tonomy while the relationship and pur pose of the federation to the affiliated bodies is to assit them in carrying out trade betterment to take the initiative in introducing and urging the passage of desirable legislation and to promote the general welfare it is thus seen that the american fed eration of labor cannot be considered as holding or having funds in the ordinary routine of its business for other or unusual purposes a most unusual and important epoch has occurred in which extra funds are essential and an earnest appeal for financial aid is herewith made to you and which will no doubt meet with your prompt and liberal response leaders sentenced to jail you know that samuel gompers john mitchell and frank morrison have been declared guilty of violating an injunction issued by the supreme court of the dis trict of columbia and that justice wright of that court has sentenced them to terms of imprisonment of twelve nine and six months respectively pending an appeal they are out on bail the original injunction issued on the application of the bucks stove & range company has been appealed to the court of appeals of the district of columbia and we have authorized our attorneys also to take an appeal against justice wright's decision we hold that messrs gompers mlt j chell and morrison have not violated the ! terms of the injunction but instead have ! exercised their right of free press and free speech these are cardinal principle guaranteed by the constitution of our coun try and by our states and to the main tenance and perpetuity of which we pledge and will exert our every effort two appeals pending as stated there are now two appeals pending one upon the original injunction and the other from justice wright's de cision should an adverse decision be reached in either or both appeals it will be essential to make further appeals to the supreme court of the united states surely no member of organized labor or other fair-minded main shall rest content unless the principles involved iu those cases are determined by the highest tribunal in our land we have already expended large sums in these cases and the plaintiffs attorneys have not only publicly boasted of causing such large expenditures on oar part but have asserted there are more to come we have exceptionally able attorneys in the hon alton b parker and messrs ralston and siddons who will carry the cases to their logical and final conclusion but ample funds must be provided to per mit this to be done from the expressions of our feliow workers and friends in all walks of life we find that they are in absolute accord with us in the determined stand taken by messrs gompers mitchell and morrison in the assertion of their and our inalienable rights of free press and free speech and the deternainatlon that these cases be pressed to final determination will fight for rights of course we will fight for our rights through every legitimate and constitutional channel which our system of legislation and law procedure permits to rectify the injus tice of which we complain and in the meantime in having these cases appealed and determined we are confident that we are pursuing the course which commends itself to the men of labor and other friends of human justice eternal vigilance is the price of liberty in order to permit of proper defense of liberty and freedom as guaranteed to all citizens we appeal to labor and to all friends to make financial contributions for legal defense in the cases before the courts presideut gompers and his col leagues are on trial for your rights co equally with their own and every liberty loving citizeu in or out of the ranks of labor should consider the situation and ap peal as their own personal concern and response should be made accordingly declaration of rights upon the injunction abuse the denver convention of the american federation of labor declared that we will exercise al the rights and privileges guaranteed to us by the constitution and laws of our coun try and insist that it is our duty to defend ourselves at all hazards this appeal for funds is issued in accordance with that declaration send all contributions to frank morri son secretary american federation of labor 423 g street northwest washing ton d c who will acknowledge and re ceipt for same and make due accounting thereof sincerely and f rat email v yours executive council american federation of labor chicagoan becomes life trustee of princeton princeton x j jan 16 thomas davies jones 76 of Chicago has qualified as a life trustee of princeton university bishop warren fraser mcdowell of chi cago will deliver a lecture to the theo logical class on january 24 â€¢ bodies of cheneys foond at messina sailors of battleship Illinois find remains of consul and wife at messina washington jan 16 captain bowyer of the battleship Illinois who has had his men searching the ruins of the consular building at messina cabled to the nary department to-day that the bodies of the american consul arthur s cheney and mrs cheney have been found the bodies were taken out of the ruins by the sailors of the battleship Illinois vhieh arrived at me3slna from suez cap tain bowyer had been instructed by ad miral sperry while on the way from suez to malta tc proceed to messina and try to recover the remains of the american consul and his wife when captain bowyer reached messina he sent a number of sail ors ashore to excavate the ruins the bodies were taken aboard the amer ican supply ship culgoa which will carry them to naples admiral sperry to whom captain bowyer telegraphed the news in forms the navy department by cable that arrangements are being made for their fchlpment to the united states having accomplished her mission at messina the Illinois has returned to malta arthur s cheney was bora in Illinois and entered the consular service of the united states nov 27 1906 when he was appointed vice and deputy consul at itetchenberg germany he was made consul at messina in augnst 1907 when appointed to the service mr cheney re sided in connecticut where his relatives now live ninety thousand were killed messina jan 16 an official estimate of the number of people killed in mes sina as a result of the catastrophe de cember 28 has been made by stuart k lupton american vice consul on behalf of the embassy at rome mr i.upton places the number at 90,000 he estimates also that there are still 10,000 people in the city getting iuformation concerning individ uals who were in messina at the time of the earthquake is difficult as there are undoubtedly tens of thousands still under the ruins and other tens of thousands scattered throughout sicily and the pen insula the people in messina are camp ing iu the outskirts and it has been impos sible to take a census of them quake recorded by seismographs manila jan 16 the instruments al the government observatory here to-day recorded a severe earthquake at a dis tance from this city it is estimated that the disturbance must have occurred at least 3.000 kilometers from manila olson to cleland judicial dowieism freeing of convicted prison ers thus designated after clash of orders phe methods judge cleland has â– been pursuing at the shakes peare avenue court amount to judicial dowieism he has been turning loose burglars holdup men and criminals of the worst order there will be no pa roling of criminals either directly or by indirection so long as i am chief of the municipal court any judge who does not conduct his court regu larly will be transferred and clerks that do not obey my orders will be removed â€” chief justice harry olson of the municipal court it jl s long as i am police magistrate *^ at this station i shall adminis ter justice as i see fit and will not tol erate interference from any one i have not paroled any one and i am entirely within my rights in continu ing cases indefinitely i have told my clerks what to do and expect them to do it judge mckenzie cleland of the shakespeare avenue oranoh of the municipal court the breach between municipal judge mc kenzie cleland and chief justice harry olson widened yesterday and now threat ens to involve several clerks of the munici pal court who have been carryiug out the instructions of the parole judge judge cleland is defiant of the authority of his chief while judge olson irrsists that the indefinite continuance of cases on a motion to vacate judgment is in effect nothing less than the paroling of convicted criminals \ an order on deputy clerk charles h krimbill to have mittimusses immediatelv issued for all prisoners now at liberty as a result of such procedure was the opening shot fired yesterday by the chief justice it was ordered that they be placed in the bridewell until further action is taken iu their cases these instructions were immediately transmitted to deputy clerks kniil zutz and h schmidt who serve under judge cleland at the shakespeare avenue court and were as promptly countermanded by the latter jurist i will give you instructions on all such points said judge cleland if i wan t any mittimuses issued i will tell you and i don't want to hear of auv being sent out without my authority being thus placed between the frying pan and the fire the two deputy clerk's of the station were in doubt as to what to do and compromised by postponing action until monday meantime thev expect to consult with chief clerk homer k gajpin justice olson's action came us a result of his investigation into three cases in which prisoners convicted in judge i'lelaud's court are still at liberty without any def inite time being s.-t for their reappearance in court the defendants were alice cook albert jaeek and mux zygerr all of whom were found guilty of disorderly conduct and assessed sloo ' hopkins last caucus hope killed by speaker shurtleff turns cold should j al day when senator seeks interview i claims 116 works ha^h aurora man to dig trench to-night at springfielcl for final stand foes to hold deadlcm foss will give real battle stringer to keep demo crats in line united states senator mr bert j hopkins reluctant ly admitted yesterday after noon that there will be no caucus of the Illinois legislature on the ques tion of his re-election in the next breath he claimed that he would be re-elected by at least 116 votes in the joint assembly and that he i had no fear whatever of defeat and j then he said he will go to sprlngfieldh to-night in order to be there toÂ»morro^j to labor with the legislators to gal them to do what ha la sura they wail to do for a gentleman of the serene col fldence that he professed senator hoi kins showed a most extraordinary prn turbatlon of spirit saying that be did not care whether a carcus should be held or not he used entry bit of politi cal strength that he could command to bring about that caucus and failed and bis manner whan be wea professing his satisfaction with the situation was about as calm as that of one woo had in nfirertently taken a seat opon a hot store and was endeavoring to keep both his seat and hl9 countenance for fear that any confesaion of his error might disturb h?i guests seeks aid of shurtleff from the time he reached Chicago yes ' terday morning until he was finally forced , to confess his failure at nightfall senator , hopkins bent all his energies upon the so ; lution of the cancus question he chose to make the effort through speaker e d i shurtleff after his lieutenants had informed . him that it would be futile to call a cau cus of only the deneen element even if he could get one 1 the senator made his appeal directly to i mr shurtleff himself unfortunately for him he happened upon the speaker's busy day mr shurtleff was in fact the bust â– est lawyer in Chicago and confessed that he was as soon as he reached Chicago the sen ' ator sent a message to the speaker that the . presence of the latter was desired at the senator's office the senator even said he . wanted to see the speaker immediate mr shurtleff announced i â– ie wa sorry but because he had been tied up ir springfield the greater part f the vreei lan accumulation of business r j ' rr i possible for him to leave his office tsea declines luncheon invitation would the speaker come to luncheon a the union league club thou and raee some mutual friends for the ltscasston of matters of interest the senator desired to know the speaker would not iprornise though he would like to do so but the business matters were pressing and it proved that the private business was so urgent that the luncheon was forgotten by mr shsrf leff having failed to get a full-face view of the speaker by his own efforts the sen ator sent emissaries district attorney william e trautman of east st louis and internal revenue collector frank l smith of dwight betook themselves to the sixteenth floor of the title & trust bulla â– ing where the speaker is housed to tell him a very pleasant little conference was to be held in suite sl5 of the corn ex change national bunk building and that his presence would add to the general good feeling of the occasion sit down and wait in vain the speaker was still immersed in work his desk was piled high with papers hi would like very much to meet his friends but a lawyer simply hud to do his duty by his clients however colonel smith aui 1 mr trautmann might wait and if he got thorough â€” colonel smith and mr trautmann did wait they watched the speaker s h workeifturiously they waited until the chairs got hard then they went down to the ground lloor hall of the building and waited some more they paced that lobby until their feet were weary and had vision of the trcmeudous amount of labor the speaker must be doing at last fearfu that the caucus might break up thcr went ggflaaÃŸeiwiig ' alawbt i m i...n-y m weather forecast 1 t chica go and vicinity ciear i fj a ing sunday > with fresh southwest to r-j jjjjb west winds monday fair and colder fik red cross cough drop coupon will be found on page 5 of this section i('jv;a iâ€”jews.1 â€” jews 6 â€” csttosxjh ym a fobszov Â«â€” drama t 3 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vol ix no 29 a m sunday c * Chicago january 17 1909 Chicago examiner sunday price five cents book trust protege now employed by cooley is charge art institute leaders say supt eggers was taken from prang co reparation possible school board to face de . mand for restoration of teachers art credits another link in the chain of circumstances that are inter preted as showing a connec i tion between the school book trust and the office of superintendent of schools coolej was brought to light yesterday i when the discovery was made that i george w eggers superintendent of ' drawing in the Chicago public schools and a protege of mr cooley was em ployed until three years ago by the prang publishing company a branch of the book trust trustees of the art institute are investigating the appointment of mr eggers who was brought here by mr cooley from the pratt institute in brooklyn the stronghold of the prang method of instruction in the united states if their quest proves as successful as they expect they will be prepared to ex plode a mine under mr cooley when the special committee of the school board re sumes its hearing on the charge that the superintendent's removal of the art insti tute from the list of institutions at which school teachers may earn promotional cred its was unwarranted and an abuse of his authority linked with book trust we know and the trustees of the art institute ' know that mr eggers was an employe of the prang institute for years and that by grace of mr cooley he is now at the head of the drawing department in bur public schools said miss margaret i haley i have been informed that the art institute trmstees propose to go to the of the underground connections be tween the schoolbook trust and mr coo , ley's office and that mr eggers the pro tege of mr cooley is expected to be found only one of the links in an amazing system a suppressed letter sent by registrar ralph holmes to superintendent cooley s office is also scheduled to figure prominent ly in the investigation this letter which was addressed to charles p megan as sistant to mr cooley flatly contradicts the statement in the cooley report that none of the 1,313 school teachers failed to win the credits sought in his letter mr holmes tells mr megan that there were failures of school teachers alnd that the percentage who failed was about the same as the percentage failing in the regular art students classes the letter was not included either in the report of mr cooley or bis assistants and a query at the hearing will be why it was suppressed or has its suppression qualified mr megan for membership in the ananias club reparation to be demanded after a meeting of the trustees of the art institute at the coni exchange bank yesterday director william m b french said the trustees and everybody connected with the art institute feel that repara tion should be made by the school board for mr cooler's outrageous attack upon an institution whose good name nobody of any standing has ever befre attempted to besmirch i have no doubt it will be intimated at the hearing that the only adequate reparation is to have the board restore the art institute to the accredited list this idea will probably be put in the form of a suggestion should it be necessary to formulate it as a request or demand then the demand will be made in the name of the whole community everybody being interested in seeing that a public institution like ours shall get fair play normal school laxity charged sensational discoveries showing the ex istence of serious flaws in mr cooley's system for promotion of teachers were an nounced yesterday and will be adduced in support of the demand for reinstatement of the art institute it is claimed that through nrismanage ment carelessnes or worse no record has been kept of the credits earned by teach ers in the promotional courses at the nor mal school and that this lax system of destruction or loss of credit books drove the teachers in a body to the classes at the art institute asked whether trustees would claim at the hearing that the school book trust or its alleged auxiliary the prang company was responsible for the attack upon the art institute mr french said we are digging deep into that channel and if is possible we will be able to show that the hand of our so-calied rival the pratt institute maintained as an adjunct by the prang company figures more than anybody could dream of in this abortive attempt to injure art in Chicago at the eeting a special committee of four to prepare an answer to the specific charges in mr cooley's report was ap pointed the fou are charles 1 hutchln-i son m a ryerson a a sprague and frank g l,ogan iu addition to these the following attended the meeting john c black clarence buckingham , howard shaw n h carpenter and w m it fravch harriman prefers high school boy to college man as railroader tells yale students former can make accurate statement while col legian writes puzzling scrawl new haven conn jttn 16 euwara h harriman the railroad financier has written for the yale daily news his views on college training as preparation for rail roading he said in part a college education will be a great help if the man in going through college has kept the foundations of high school learn ing firmly fixed on the other haud if he has neglected his handwriting and forgotten his arith metic in higher mathematics nothing could be worse for him if however he still retains these essentials he has a great advantage in that he has a broader view of the world the high school boy has the advantage in that all the first essentials of good work in railroading are at his fingers ends for instance take the making of a simple statement it should be like a picture something that can be taken in at a glance a high school boy will draw such a statement with perfect accuracy and clear ness while n young couege graduate will draw it in such a way that it is a puzzling scrawl thus college education is in the begin ning a real disadvantage and i have found that in every case the hig3 school boy does better work than the college man for the first few years however as soon as the college man has overcome these habits and has got back to first principles he will go ahead much faster than his less edu cated rival his mind is naturally better developed and more capable of grasping the fine points of the business on the other hand the high school boy being younger is more adaptable and has not in most cases the irregular habits of the college man no matter how well educated a man may be he must start in railroading at the very bottom a railroad man has no fixed home he is like a naval officer always at sea and moreover he is always working to the limit of his endurance it is the hardest life i know and yet one of the most pleasant it cultivates an insight it teaches a knowledge of men and in this way is the best training for any profes sion national guard chief and staff visit grant officers pay official call to com mander of lakes department major general e c young division commander of the illnois national guard with the officers of his staff paid an of ficial call yesterday at the office of major general fred d grant commander of the department oi the lakes the guards men in full uniform arrived at the fed eral building shortly before 2 o'clock and were received by general grant and his aid-de-camp captain a j bowley the members of general young's staff are colonel l d greene adjutant genera of the division lieutenant colonel t e brown inspector general lieutenant colonel gordon strong ordnance officer lieutenant colonel g p marquis chief surgeon and captains l a mccalla and henry b chamberlin aids-de-camp Taft dines fireman and engineer of fast train overalled employes guests of presi dent-elect in private car atlanta ga jan 16 engineer jo seph hogan and fireman watson of the georgia railroad are wearing broad smiles because they were the special dinner guests of president-elect Taft hogan handled the throttle of the engine which brought Taft from augusta to atlanta at an average speed of four seconds over a mile a minute the run of 171 miles being made in 183 minutes so impressed was Taft by the run that at social circle he asked the engineer and fireman to dine with him in his pri vate car they objected because they were in overalls and grimy but Taft in sisted and they accepted law institute picks its new officials julius johnson is elected president of the organization the aunual meeting and election of offi cers of the Chicago law institute was held yesterday in the rooms of the insti tute 1025 county building at which judge philip stein the outgoing president presided the new officers are president julius johnson first vice president george e dawsou second vice president marcus eaton secretary alfred e barr treas urer frederic e hebard librarian wil liam h holden the directors elected were samuel m jackson walter d her rick robert c fergus lyman m paine joseph w hiner c t b goodspeed charles b obermeyer henry w leniau and carlos t ward do yon need a shipping clerk phono randolph 2500 * senator hopkins arriving home to fieht for toea from snapshot taken as the senat or left the train where lie was met by his son who is shown walking beside him aldermen to force dual phone system cut tunnel company's in stallation extension from 2 years to 8 months ' independents victory corporation attorneys caught off guard by committee ac tion protest vainly steps toward the establishment of a dual telephone exchange in Chicago were taken yesterday at the meeting of the city council committee on gas oil and elec tric light the committee to the consternation of the attorneys for the Illinois tunnel com pany and representatives of the Chicago telephone company decided to force the installation of the 20,000 telephones re quired under the tunnel ordinance and to consider an ordinance giving independent companies connection with Chicago through the tunnel concern the action was so unexpected that it caught former judge nathaniel sears un prepared with a protest and a wordy clash with the chairman of the committee alderman pringle followed extension time reduced the committee had recently decided to allow the tunnel company a two years extension of time in which the 20,000 tele phones were to be installed that would give them until february 1911 to do the work yesterday after calling up the ex tension clause for reconsideration the ex tension was changed to eight months the company therefore must have its 20,000 telephones installed by november 1909 the change in plans was due to the offer of the independent telephone concerns wanting to enter Chicago these concerns represented before the council committee by h d moulton asked that the Illinois company be compelled to allow them to use their Chicago connections the com pany had refused an offer from the inde pendents and was prepared to fight for the right to sell its telephone rights the Chicago telephone company being osten sibly the prospective buyer in fact alderman scully had prepared an amendment to the ordinance permitting the sale hut did not present it when the motion to cut down the time limit from two years to eight months passed general counsel sears for the tunnel com pany observed alderman and lawyer clash such a proceeding is rather strange don't you think that a mistake is being made in permitting a dual system in chi cago yon may remember 1 said this be fore i knew you said it but i didn't be lieve you answered alderman pringle thank you for your compliment re torted mr sears i am sorry if i offended yo re plied mr pringle yon need not apologize i am at your mercy here and i belive you know it was the response well let us get back to business snapped mr pringle and he asked the committeemen what they desired with re gard to allowing the independents to enter Chicago i fear that is a question that will en tail much debate and long consideration said alderman snow and i propose that it be set for a certain day for considera tion the matter was postponed until the next meeting of the committee but the matter of extending the time limit for installa tion of the 20.000 phones will be reported into the council monday night independents plead cause h d critchfield and h d moulton did most of the talking for the independ ent telephone companies before the com mittee mr critchfield impressed on the councilmen the urgency of allowing the independents to enter the city for the bet terment of business and the reduction of telephone rates he urged the insertion of a clause in the ordinance that would give the city the right to force connec tions between the tunnel company and the independents the city in my opinion should be given this power declared walter l fisher it would be for the city's benefit i do not believe the independents themselves are entitled to any rights but it may be that the mere insertion of this clause will make the bell people see the light and give these toll connections without further ac tion on your part tf there are 1 500,000 independent phones near Chicago as is claimed or even any substantial part of them it would be shortsighted policy to remove the possibil ity of business connection with them by leaving opeu the chance for some such ar rangement between the tunnel and the tel ephone companies such as has been sug gested here agnes cameron tells of arctic exploration woman who was guest of hudson bay company gives lecture miss agues cameron who recently re turned from a six months trip to the far north gave au illustrated lecture at the colonial hotel thursday evening to 200 invited guests the subject was from wheat to whales miss cameron was the first white woman to make a trip to the arctic ocean via the macken zie river route she made this journey as the guest of the hudson bay com pany free recitals resumed the free recitals given on wednesday noons by the central conservatory which achieved great popularity before the holi days have beeu resumed and will con tinue through february at least a f l appeals for funds to aid chiefs friends of labor asked to contribute to fight on jail sentences will battle for rights gompers mitchell and morri son exercised constitutional privilege is plea washington jan 16 the executive council of the american federation of labor to-day issued the following appeal for funds with which to carry the appeal of gompers mitchell and morrison from the sentence of imprisonment passed on them to the supreme court of the united states to organized labor its l-'riends and sympathizers greeting the american federation of labor as its name signifies is a voluntary body composed of national international and local unions each of which attends to its own trade business financial and otherwise and retains its complete and individual authority and au tonomy while the relationship and pur pose of the federation to the affiliated bodies is to assit them in carrying out trade betterment to take the initiative in introducing and urging the passage of desirable legislation and to promote the general welfare it is thus seen that the american fed eration of labor cannot be considered as holding or having funds in the ordinary routine of its business for other or unusual purposes a most unusual and important epoch has occurred in which extra funds are essential and an earnest appeal for financial aid is herewith made to you and which will no doubt meet with your prompt and liberal response leaders sentenced to jail you know that samuel gompers john mitchell and frank morrison have been declared guilty of violating an injunction issued by the supreme court of the dis trict of columbia and that justice wright of that court has sentenced them to terms of imprisonment of twelve nine and six months respectively pending an appeal they are out on bail the original injunction issued on the application of the bucks stove & range company has been appealed to the court of appeals of the district of columbia and we have authorized our attorneys also to take an appeal against justice wright's decision we hold that messrs gompers mlt j chell and morrison have not violated the ! terms of the injunction but instead have ! exercised their right of free press and free speech these are cardinal principle guaranteed by the constitution of our coun try and by our states and to the main tenance and perpetuity of which we pledge and will exert our every effort two appeals pending as stated there are now two appeals pending one upon the original injunction and the other from justice wright's de cision should an adverse decision be reached in either or both appeals it will be essential to make further appeals to the supreme court of the united states surely no member of organized labor or other fair-minded main shall rest content unless the principles involved iu those cases are determined by the highest tribunal in our land we have already expended large sums in these cases and the plaintiffs attorneys have not only publicly boasted of causing such large expenditures on oar part but have asserted there are more to come we have exceptionally able attorneys in the hon alton b parker and messrs ralston and siddons who will carry the cases to their logical and final conclusion but ample funds must be provided to per mit this to be done from the expressions of our feliow workers and friends in all walks of life we find that they are in absolute accord with us in the determined stand taken by messrs gompers mitchell and morrison in the assertion of their and our inalienable rights of free press and free speech and the deternainatlon that these cases be pressed to final determination will fight for rights of course we will fight for our rights through every legitimate and constitutional channel which our system of legislation and law procedure permits to rectify the injus tice of which we complain and in the meantime in having these cases appealed and determined we are confident that we are pursuing the course which commends itself to the men of labor and other friends of human justice eternal vigilance is the price of liberty in order to permit of proper defense of liberty and freedom as guaranteed to all citizens we appeal to labor and to all friends to make financial contributions for legal defense in the cases before the courts presideut gompers and his col leagues are on trial for your rights co equally with their own and every liberty loving citizeu in or out of the ranks of labor should consider the situation and ap peal as their own personal concern and response should be made accordingly declaration of rights upon the injunction abuse the denver convention of the american federation of labor declared that we will exercise al the rights and privileges guaranteed to us by the constitution and laws of our coun try and insist that it is our duty to defend ourselves at all hazards this appeal for funds is issued in accordance with that declaration send all contributions to frank morri son secretary american federation of labor 423 g street northwest washing ton d c who will acknowledge and re ceipt for same and make due accounting thereof sincerely and f rat email v yours executive council american federation of labor chicagoan becomes life trustee of princeton princeton x j jan 16 thomas davies jones 76 of Chicago has qualified as a life trustee of princeton university bishop warren fraser mcdowell of chi cago will deliver a lecture to the theo logical class on january 24 â€¢ bodies of cheneys foond at messina sailors of battleship Illinois find remains of consul and wife at messina washington jan 16 captain bowyer of the battleship Illinois who has had his men searching the ruins of the consular building at messina cabled to the nary department to-day that the bodies of the american consul arthur s cheney and mrs cheney have been found the bodies were taken out of the ruins by the sailors of the battleship Illinois vhieh arrived at me3slna from suez cap tain bowyer had been instructed by ad miral sperry while on the way from suez to malta tc proceed to messina and try to recover the remains of the american consul and his wife when captain bowyer reached messina he sent a number of sail ors ashore to excavate the ruins the bodies were taken aboard the amer ican supply ship culgoa which will carry them to naples admiral sperry to whom captain bowyer telegraphed the news in forms the navy department by cable that arrangements are being made for their fchlpment to the united states having accomplished her mission at messina the Illinois has returned to malta arthur s cheney was bora in Illinois and entered the consular service of the united states nov 27 1906 when he was appointed vice and deputy consul at itetchenberg germany he was made consul at messina in augnst 1907 when appointed to the service mr cheney re sided in connecticut where his relatives now live ninety thousand were killed messina jan 16 an official estimate of the number of people killed in mes sina as a result of the catastrophe de cember 28 has been made by stuart k lupton american vice consul on behalf of the embassy at rome mr i.upton places the number at 90,000 he estimates also that there are still 10,000 people in the city getting iuformation concerning individ uals who were in messina at the time of the earthquake is difficult as there are undoubtedly tens of thousands still under the ruins and other tens of thousands scattered throughout sicily and the pen insula the people in messina are camp ing iu the outskirts and it has been impos sible to take a census of them quake recorded by seismographs manila jan 16 the instruments al the government observatory here to-day recorded a severe earthquake at a dis tance from this city it is estimated that the disturbance must have occurred at least 3.000 kilometers from manila olson to cleland judicial dowieism freeing of convicted prison ers thus designated after clash of orders phe methods judge cleland has â– been pursuing at the shakes peare avenue court amount to judicial dowieism he has been turning loose burglars holdup men and criminals of the worst order there will be no pa roling of criminals either directly or by indirection so long as i am chief of the municipal court any judge who does not conduct his court regu larly will be transferred and clerks that do not obey my orders will be removed â€” chief justice harry olson of the municipal court it jl s long as i am police magistrate *^ at this station i shall adminis ter justice as i see fit and will not tol erate interference from any one i have not paroled any one and i am entirely within my rights in continu ing cases indefinitely i have told my clerks what to do and expect them to do it judge mckenzie cleland of the shakespeare avenue oranoh of the municipal court the breach between municipal judge mc kenzie cleland and chief justice harry olson widened yesterday and now threat ens to involve several clerks of the munici pal court who have been carryiug out the instructions of the parole judge judge cleland is defiant of the authority of his chief while judge olson irrsists that the indefinite continuance of cases on a motion to vacate judgment is in effect nothing less than the paroling of convicted criminals \ an order on deputy clerk charles h krimbill to have mittimusses immediatelv issued for all prisoners now at liberty as a result of such procedure was the opening shot fired yesterday by the chief justice it was ordered that they be placed in the bridewell until further action is taken iu their cases these instructions were immediately transmitted to deputy clerks kniil zutz and h schmidt who serve under judge cleland at the shakespeare avenue court and were as promptly countermanded by the latter jurist i will give you instructions on all such points said judge cleland if i wan t any mittimuses issued i will tell you and i don't want to hear of auv being sent out without my authority being thus placed between the frying pan and the fire the two deputy clerk's of the station were in doubt as to what to do and compromised by postponing action until monday meantime thev expect to consult with chief clerk homer k gajpin justice olson's action came us a result of his investigation into three cases in which prisoners convicted in judge i'lelaud's court are still at liberty without any def inite time being s.-t for their reappearance in court the defendants were alice cook albert jaeek and mux zygerr all of whom were found guilty of disorderly conduct and assessed sloo ' hopkins last caucus hope killed by speaker shurtleff turns cold should j al day when senator seeks interview i claims 116 works ha^h aurora man to dig trench to-night at springfielcl for final stand foes to hold deadlcm foss will give real battle stringer to keep demo crats in line united states senator mr bert j hopkins reluctant ly admitted yesterday after noon that there will be no caucus of the Illinois legislature on the ques tion of his re-election in the next breath he claimed that he would be re-elected by at least 116 votes in the joint assembly and that he i had no fear whatever of defeat and j then he said he will go to sprlngfieldh to-night in order to be there toÂ»morro^j to labor with the legislators to gal them to do what ha la sura they wail to do for a gentleman of the serene col fldence that he professed senator hoi kins showed a most extraordinary prn turbatlon of spirit saying that be did not care whether a carcus should be held or not he used entry bit of politi cal strength that he could command to bring about that caucus and failed and bis manner whan be wea professing his satisfaction with the situation was about as calm as that of one woo had in nfirertently taken a seat opon a hot store and was endeavoring to keep both his seat and hl9 countenance for fear that any confesaion of his error might disturb h?i guests seeks aid of shurtleff from the time he reached Chicago yes ' terday morning until he was finally forced , to confess his failure at nightfall senator , hopkins bent all his energies upon the so ; lution of the cancus question he chose to make the effort through speaker e d i shurtleff after his lieutenants had informed . him that it would be futile to call a cau cus of only the deneen element even if he could get one 1 the senator made his appeal directly to i mr shurtleff himself unfortunately for him he happened upon the speaker's busy day mr shurtleff was in fact the bust â– est lawyer in Chicago and confessed that he was as soon as he reached Chicago the sen ' ator sent a message to the speaker that the . presence of the latter was desired at the senator's office the senator even said he . wanted to see the speaker immediate mr shurtleff announced i â– ie wa sorry but because he had been tied up ir springfield the greater part f the vreei lan accumulation of business r j ' rr i possible for him to leave his office tsea declines luncheon invitation would the speaker come to luncheon a the union league club thou and raee some mutual friends for the ltscasston of matters of interest the senator desired to know the speaker would not iprornise though he would like to do so but the business matters were pressing and it proved that the private business was so urgent that the luncheon was forgotten by mr shsrf leff having failed to get a full-face view of the speaker by his own efforts the sen ator sent emissaries district attorney william e trautman of east st louis and internal revenue collector frank l smith of dwight betook themselves to the sixteenth floor of the title & trust bulla â– ing where the speaker is housed to tell him a very pleasant little conference was to be held in suite sl5 of the corn ex change national bunk building and that his presence would add to the general good feeling of the occasion sit down and wait in vain the speaker was still immersed in work his desk was piled high with papers hi would like very much to meet his friends but a lawyer simply hud to do his duty by his clients however colonel smith aui 1 mr trautmann might wait and if he got thorough â€” colonel smith and mr trautmann did wait they watched the speaker s h workeifturiously they waited until the chairs got hard then they went down to the ground lloor hall of the building and waited some more they paced that lobby until their feet were weary and had vision of the trcmeudous amount of labor the speaker must be doing at last fearfu that the caucus might break up thcr went ggflaaÃŸeiwiig ' alawbt i m i...n-y m weather forecast 1 t chica go and vicinity ciear i fj a ing sunday > with fresh southwest to r-j jjjjb west winds monday fair and colder fik red cross cough drop coupon will be found on page 5 of this section i('jv;a iâ€”jews.1 â€” jews 6 â€” csttosxjh ym a fobszov Â«â€” drama t 3 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